Add-ons on Friday

Did you know that an average developer wakes up at 07.50am, works for 8 hours 57 minutes and goes to sleep at 10.54pm? 65% of programmers drink coffee and 45% do exercises, they code for 2+ hours and e-mail for 54 min per day. There was one good reason to know developers around you better this week, if there were any; on the 12th of September we’ve celebrated Programmers’ Day. Check out this image to discover more dev stats:

In spite of a good occasion for hanging out and partying, BelVG developers pulled themselves together and created a great PrestaShop Presentation Page module for you. The extension allows demonstrating store’s key products, fresh items or any supplementary information to new coming visitors on a visually appealing presentation page.

Meanwhile, this weekend BelVG team hits the road to Kyiv, Ukraine to participate in MageConf. For the third year in a row, this conference brings together the Magento Development Team and the best of PHP and Magento developers from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and other countries of CIS. According the official Magento Blog, this year Magento developers will present the latest developments of the Magento platform and X.Commerce fabric and address the non-trivial solutions of practical problems faced by most developers. We’ll be back on Monday morning, all rested and experienced, to release a couple of stunning extensions in the nearest future.

Alex Huk is a chief of technical department in BelVG eCommerce Development Company. He has 7+ years experience in PHP, MySQL, Ajax, XHTML, JScript, etc. as well as in property relations consulting, CTO, e-Commerce, modules development and more. Such a background allows him to generate great ideas, conduct e-Commerce consultations and communicate with partners.

Being absorbed in his work, Alex Huk still spends a lot of time with his beautiful wife and baby-boy. He’s really passionate about swimming and fond of motors – automobile, boat, airplane, tank.

To enable Loyalty programs, you probably use default Customer Loyalty and Rewards module. But this module has a serious disadvantage: a customer can’t use loyalty points during checkout and has to trade them for vouchers before buying anything. It isn’t convenient for customers and represents a risk for your sales.

In our Prestashop Loyalty Points module we have corrected this inconvenience. With our module, your loyalty program gets easier and more efficient. After you install our module, a customer won’t have to get back to their account to trade their loyalty points for vouchers.

Key features:

No need to convert loyalty points into vouchers;

Loyalty points can be applied during checkout;

A customer can define how many points (s)he wants to use for an order.

It’s sometimes very useful to show a customer how many items are left in stock, or give any other useful info based on the Stock amount. With Prestashop Custom Stock Status module you can assign anything, image or text-based, to appear on your product page once a certain stock number is reached. The default use would be to inform the customer that there are almost no items left (and he has to hurry up) but you can find more creative uses for the extension as you can input anything and set any stock number as a trigger.

Key features:

Use various status icons which can be applied to the products in your store;

Upload your own images and supply your statuses with any text;

Create a custom status either for a single product only or for the whole group of items;